Benchmarks: 3DMark03, Sandra 2004

This new
accurate diagnostic tool, designed for DirectX9.0, provides you with all the
information you need to make informed hardware assessments. Havok Total
real-time physics library from Havok - these routines are used to accurately
model the movements of objects due to forces, etc. FMOD sound library from
Firelight Technologies - these are used for the various sound effects and
routines used in the tests. Graphics adapter analysis software from Powerstrip
of Entech Taiwan - this is used to correctly determine the speeds of the
graphics processing and video memory chips, plus supply additional hardware
information. Higher 3DMark03 scores denote better performance.

3DMark03 Benchmark Results

Video Card

3DMarks

Ranking

Athlon64 3200+

6196

Athlon64 3400+

6260

Athlon64 FX-51

6310

Pentium4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition

6657

Pentium4 3.2GHz Northwood

6516

Pentium4 3.2GHz Prescott

6608

Futuremark's synthetic graphics test reflects the same
results as PCMark04; mainly, Prescott beats out Northwood by a very narrow
margin, and all of the Pentium 4 processors outrun AMD's lineup. The situation
changes in the raw processor benchmark, however.

Sandra is designed to test the
theoretical power of a complete system and individual components. The numbers
taken though are again, purely theoretical and may not represent real world
performance. Higher numbers represent better performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2004 Benchmark
Results

Multimedia Benchmark

CPU Benchmark

Memory Benchmark

Processors

Integer SSE2:

Floating-Point
SSE2:

Dhrystone SSE2:

Whetstone SSE2:

Integer SSE2:

FloatSSE2:

Athlon64 3200+

15022

19835

8383

4152

3067

3067

Athlon64 3400+

16507

21824

9251

4564

3071

3072

Athlon64 FX-51

16819

22199

9414

4633

5860

5795

Pentium4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition

24546

35406

9858

7140

4673

4673

Pentium4 3.2GHz Northwood

24564

35562

9836

7120

4757

4709

Pentium4 3.2GHz Prescott

22650

30361

8753

6615

4865

4867

Units:

it/s

it/s

MIPS

MFLOPS

MB/s

MB/s

Maybe
it's because SiSoft Sandra 2004 wasn't compiled explicitly with Prescott in
mind, but SiSoftware's latest synthetic benchmark doesn't paint the new core in
a good light at all. First, Northwood beats it in the arithmetic tests by about
12 percent. It goes on to lose the multimedia test as well, losing to both the
Northwood and Gallatin cores. AMD's Athlon 64 has never done well in the Sandra
processor tests, a trend that continues here, but the Athlon 64 FX's integrated
memory controller really shines, nearly tipping the 6GB per second mark.